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Designer
Junya Ishigami
Junya Ishigami was born in 1974 in Kanagawa, Japan, and currently lives and works in Tokyo. The Fondation Cartier states that he studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, began his career at SANAA and founded his own practice,…
Biography
Background
Junya Ishigami was born in 1974 in Kanagawa, Japan, and currently lives and works in Tokyo. The Fondation Cartier states that he studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, began his career at SANAA and founded his own practice, junya.ishigami+associates, in 2004.
Signature Style
The Fondation Cartier describes Ishigami's approach to architecture as unique and poetic. His work is presented as transcending traditional constraints, with architectural projects that he compares to landscapes or forests.
Notable Works
The Fondation Cartier lists the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (2008), the Moscow Polytechnic Museum garden restoration (2011), the House of Peace in Copenhagen (2014) and the Chapel of the Valley in Bailuwan (2016). Living Divani credits him with Family Chair (2010), a collection of five chairs.
Legacy
Ishigami won the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. The Fondation Cartier invited him to present the solo exhibition Freeing Architecture in 2018, which later travelled to the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in 2019. In 2019, the Serpentine Gallery commissioned him to design its summer pavilion.
